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Poll data from Xiaomi LYWSD03MMC sensor from a Docker contained script
Xiaomi released a small, square shape temperature/humidity sensor named LYWSD03MMC, which is equipped with a small LCD sensor. Let’s see how we can get and use it’s readings in a home automation system.
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Flash ESPHome onto an ESP32 using docker-compose
I use docker-compose to run the ESPHome container which I use to flash ESPHome onto my ESP32 devices. To see how I do that, check the configs in this post.
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Xiaomi Mijia Hygrothermo v2 sensor data on Raspberry Pi
There’s a neat looking Xiaomi LYWSDCGQ sensor with a display which shows temperature and humidity of it’s environment. We’ll use a BLE capable Raspberry Pi to read out the sensor’s data.
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Give more power to USB devices on Raspberry Pi
There’s a way to allow your Pi to provide as much power to the connected USB devices as possible. Let me show you how.
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Enabling SSH and connect to your home WiFi with a headless Pi Zero W
Currently there are two Raspberry Pi types which come with built-i WiFi modules: the Raspberry Pi 3 and the Raspberry Pi Zero W. I’ll show you how to use them “headless”.
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Monitoring download speed of a network interface on Raspbian
I needed to check the download speed on of an interface on my Raspberry Pi, so I have used a tool called speedometer to do so.
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Xiaomi MiFlora plant sensor in Pimatic
Xiaomi MiFlora is a cost-effective plant sensor, which uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to communicate wirelessly, and is capable of sensing temperature, soil humidity, light, soil fertility and it’s own battery level.
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Logging download speed of transmission-daemon
This one-liner checks the current sum of download speed of all torrents currently running in transmission-daemon. You can also direct the output to a file, to have a logfile of it.
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Wake on LAN (WOL) your PC from Raspberry Pi
There’s a feature in network cards, which allows to power on a PC if a certain “magic packet” is received on the physical (MAC) address of the network interface.
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Setting up WiFi using an RTL8188eu dongle on Raspberry Pi Zero
The RTL8188eu WiFi chip is not supported in Raspbian Lite out of the box, so we need a few things to make it work, but I’ll show you how.
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Kindle 4 Ad blocking
I got an ad-supported version Kindle 4 as a gift, but the ads bothered me, so I’ll show how to remove them.
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Temperature/humidity sensor DHT22 (AM2302) using AdafruitDHT
Home automation projects often there is a need to measure the temperature and humidity of the air. This can be done with e.g. the DHT11 or the more advanced DHT22 sensors.
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Setting up built-in WiFi on Raspberry Pi 3
At the time of writing this post, the newest device in the Raspberry Pi universe was Pi 3, released on 29th February 2016, boasting a 64bit CPU, an onboard Bluetooth chip, and last…
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NFS file sharing server on Raspberry Pi
I use my NFS file sharing server to stream media to Kodi media centers installed on various devices in my local network.
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Transmission on Raspberry Pi
A Raspberry Pi computer is very suitable as a seedbox, due to it's low power consumption. I'll show you how to build an always-on, dedicated torrent machine.
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Welcome message (MOTD) on Raspberry Pi
Check out my custom MOTD on my Raspberry Pi, it’s showing useful data about the system right after I log in.
